From Russia With Love, Redux

Submitted by Ben Tanosborn of Tanosborn.com * ZeroHedge

I caught a glimpse of Sean Connery on TV late Monday afternoon at Ashe Stadium as the unequalled “James Bond” watched the unequalled two giants of today’s men tennis, Rafa and Novak, battle for supremacy at the US Open Tennis championship in New York. I couldn’t help but recall how 50 years before (1963) Connery was filming his 2nd JB movie which I saw at its release a year later.

A great win for Rafa Nadal at Flushing Meadows yesterday; a great Cold War movie with Connery a half-century before; and great news circulating on the possibility of defusing the crisis in Syria with an anti-embarrassment gift to Obama: “From Russia with Love.”

Incredibly, the question being asked this past weekend throughout the US media had been: will Americans’ representatives in Congress vote to support the president’s wish to punish Bashar al-Assad (Syria, really!), or will their votes follow their constituents’ wishes at home against armed intervention? Asking this question seems embarrassingly obscene, to both morality and democracy, and most of us cringe at the thought of these pusillanimous representatives and senators we have in Congress making such a decision. A collection of wealth-power seekers who have made, or are making, a personal career out of a sacred position of trust bestowed by the people in their districts or states on them… making a decision based on a canon of morality they lack! Granted that there is a minority of honorable people among those 535 folks… fewer than a hundred, for sure; but the rest, resoundingly most people, agree the nation would be better off if all burn at the stake – party affiliation inconsequential in our two-party illusory democracy.

True progressives in the United States have been cutting way, way too much slack for President Barack Obama from his first day in the White House in just about every area… giving way to pseudo-moderation and compromise, perhaps in hopes of strengthening his hand for the performance of future good deeds. Instead, progressives have continued to perpetuate the cover-up for politicians who use articulation of progressive causes for their own personal gain. It became obvious in military matters in Obama’s early decision on Afghanistan (2009) to demonstrate solidarity with the brass at the Pentagon; and we saw how a man presumably representing peace and diplomacy had cowed to the hawks in both Congress and the Pentagon.

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